Unlike the dawning of the second ice age, which followed a modest thousand years after the first, our second machine age is about to begin. There is a lot of noise surrounding artificial intelligence. But not much signal. The critics see it as war: Man versus machine, bytes fighting babies, and software belittling society. This is a smack of ignorance. We as humans like to believe that we know the answer to everything. We don’t. We actually know the factual answer to very few things, b... Read more